Hell Today

ABC and NBC I didn't have high hopes for anyway, because they are corporate-whore suckups who say whatever they think will appeal most to the perceived stupidity of their audiences, but CBS often seems to be slightly more resistant to following the (R) party line in its programming. Last night, however, did CBS bother with a story on Republican robo-calling, the hottest political topic on the Internet, on its evening news? Well, no. I guess they were afraid they might offend somebody. Of course, they can have "CSI-Miami" showing a young man getting decapitated, running the scene over and over again from different angles as if to ask, "Is there anything we can do that will make people gag more than our last utterly repulsive episode?" But telling the American public that their ruling party is trying to cheat them, to fool them, to lie to them once again in order to influence their votes? No, no, that might upset someone.

Here's a rundown and some further comments from The Carpetbagger Report on coverage (in other words, lack thereof) on the network news last night:

* ABC World News Tonight devoted two minutes to a "Polls Show That The GOP Is Catching Up" story, which is dubious enough, and made no mention of the robo-calls.

* CBS Evening News devoted two minutes to a "Polls Show GOP Closing Gap; Democrats Nervous" story (and two a half minutes to a story about the USS Intrepid getting stuck at port), but not a word about the calls.

* NBC Nightly News devoted nearly four minutes to a "New Polls Suggest Election Is Tightening In Favor Of GOP" story (and two full minutes on the "Borat" movie), but neglected to mention the robo-call story at all.

So, getting back to Kevin's original question, "[I]s the mainstream media even going to bother reporting on the saturation robo-calling currently being funded and coordinated by the National Republican Congressional Committee?," the answer, apparently, is no.

If recent history is any guide, the media will trumpet the results of a poll next week showing that Americans, by and large, never heard about the robo-call controversy, and news outlets will express amazement at the results.

Here's hoping that there are enough American voters today who got the word on exactly who was making those phone calls.

Subject line: "Be 18th again"

That should sell the Viagra.

Ann Coulter was on Leno last night promoting her book "Godless" and assuring America that liberals have no religion outside of liberalism. I also note that Power Slime has been dredging up ancient ties between certain members of the Democratic Party and the CPUSA. You see where this is going, don't you? The new Enemies of America = liberals and their "Godless Communism."

If the choice is between between "Godless Communism" and worshipping Ann Coulter's god, whatever demon from Hell that might be, I'll have to go with being a godless Communist.

In honor of today's date, I was hoping that the evening news would carry the live ceremony with Bush, Rumsfeld, and CondoLIEzza, where they suddenly ripped off their outer skins and revealed the horrendous monsters lurking beneath. Sadly, our mainstream media failed to carry this event, so here are some photos that were sneaked out by a participant in the ceremony:

Condi
Rummy
Chimp

Last Wednesday I woke up with a song from La Sonora Dinamita playing in my head; in fact, I woke up actually singing the lyrics. I hadn't listened to this band in months, but I played a bunch of their songs right then and there at 6:30 in the morning.

So tonight, Saturday, I come home from the store and what do I hear coming from my neighbor's house, 3 doors down -- a party, with Sonora Dinamita music, really loud. I thought there was a live band because someone was commenting/DJing into a microphone. I was like, oh, I have to hear a little bit of this music live, even though I don't know the people having the party. But being the absurdly shy person that I am, I didn't want to go over by myself so I called up my neighbor G. across the street and asked her if she'd like to crash the party with me. We walked over and met another neighbor on the way, and he told us it was just recorded music. I felt like a dork. But oh well, I got to hear one of my favorite bands nice and loud, if not live, and it's always good to hang out and gab for a few minutes with my neighbors.

Here's a nice song with Lucho Argaín (R.I.P.) singing...

El Lagunero

I think it's time to get out and hear some live music. Soon.

I've been browsing through blogs of the On-Line Rightwing Coalition of Lunatics and making up snarky mean names to call them on my Bloglines blogroll. Thus Little Green Footballs becomes "Little Green Penises," Red State Rant becomes "Meth Ate My Brain," etc., etc.

My favorite so far is one written by a little lady who I've labeled "Suzie Suckup." Not only does she give *way* TMI -- Lady, do you realize that there are now EVIL SEXUALLY ACTIVE LIBERAL COMMIE LESBIAN MUZZIE COLLEGE-EDUMACATED ELITIST ATHEIST WITCHES ALL OVER THE WORLD who know that YOUR HUSBAND IS SEEING A UROLOGIST ABOUT A VASECTOMY? -- but she also seems to be engaging in a relationship with multiple partners:

So, we have been waiting on the Harley to come in since my Dear Husbands return.

So, tell me, is polyandry a new bonus given to Army Wives? Are we really *that* desperate to recruit new people for our armed forces? And how many Dear Husbands does this woman have?

Ay, these Christians!

Yes, there are earthworms in the compost I'm making out in the back yard. The gardening is coming along very slowly, but right now there are a bunch of flowers (gazanias, poppies, stocks, geraniums, lilies, bougainvillea, miniature roses, camelias), a few lettuce and tomato seedlings, and some scarlet pimpernel. Cheeto and Baby are spending their time stalking blue birds, hiding from blue birds, and getting chased back into the house by blue birds. I always know where the cats are because the warning chirping is nonstop. Those birds even chased away a squirrel the other day. It's a menagerie around here.

Leina and her friend and I went to hear John Kerry speak at a rally for Antonio Villaraigosa in Van Nuys this past Saturday. I'll have some nice pictures to post on line if Leina ever gets around to sending/uploading copies! The funniest part was when Kerry was speaking and his mike went dead. Someone in the crowd started up with "Oh, say can you see," and everyone started singing the National Anthem. Meanwhile, the big group of Republican protesters kept yelling abusive comments, almost all the way through the song. Really patriotic, guys!

I have tons of work.

If you want some good commentary, go read Digby. And I like SuperNanny, too.